Day: October 15, 2017

Yellow card for Jean-Eric Vergne

Jens Jensen

Jean-Eric Vergne leaves the FIA World Endurance Championship race at the Fuji circuit with a yellow card in his backpack. The 27 year old French driver at CEFC Manor TRS Racing #24 was involved in a collision with Mathias Beche from the Vaillante Rebellion #13 team in the LMP2 category, while the two drivers were in a Slow Zone on the track. That system was something that Race Control used several times during the day, when the Safety Car period finished, to ensure that the 26 cars wouldn’t arrive at…

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Rene Rast DTM Champion 2017

Jens Jensen

Hockenheim was the home for the DTM finale of this year’s Championship, with 4 Audi Sport drivers still able to grab the Drivers Title ahead of the race. On a sunny and 21 degrees warm Sunday, the 18 cars were ready for the start of the final, which had been forecast as a pure Audi walk over. Somebody didn’t hand that note to BMW driver Tom Blomqvist, who grabbed Pole Position ahead of one of the title candidates, Audi driver Rene Rast. BMW driver Marco Wittmann was third ahead of…

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Hard fought, but close Race of Legends

Jens Jensen

Audi Sport had chosen to finish off their Audi Sport TT Cup after the third season of running. The talent development class was a successor of series like VW Polo Cup, and Volkswagen Scirocco Cup. As a special gimmick, they had invited 16 of the current and former works driver to the big finale, in a race called Race of Legends. The final was held at Hockenheim and the legends didn’t get their hands on the cars, until after the usual TT Cup drivers had done all their driving on…

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Wet 6 hours race at Fuji

Jens Jensen

Round 7 of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship was held at the Fuji track in Japan, and it was to be a wet edition, like we have often seen from the Japanese races. Race control decided to start the race behind the Safety Car, so the cars could clear some of the water from the track. The first 12 minutes of the race was run behind the SC, before all cars were released. Instantly we had a spin from the poleman in LMP2, Nelson Piquet Jr in the Vaillante…

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